10 and 7 seem a bit young
Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 11 months ago to Culture
But I think that I was about that age when I started exploring on my own. My parents got divorced when I was 8, and the first place that my mom lived was about 3 miles from my dad's house, and I know that I walked/rode the bus between the two places, and she only lived there for a year. But even the early '70's was a different era from today.
Maybe my take on this is strange but let me know what you think. I think this is the system turning its attention on the family/parents when it should be turned on those who would harm the kids. Here in Cal we have this Megan’s Law website that shows all kinds of predators living near schools when the law states they aren’t supposed to be. Oh no…don’t worry about them. Instead, have the State threaten to take the children from the family. Maybe I’m way off the mark and not seeing things correctly, but that’s how I see it. It reminds me of a joke I heard many years ago that I think Michael Savage said. “If we start throwing the crime victims in prison we’ll have a lot less crime.”
Speaking of throwing the crime victims in prison - there's an update to a post that I made earlier this week on the barbershop where there was an attempted robbery, but a patron with a concealed carry permit shot him dead. That patron was then arrested, spent the night in jail, had to spend money on an attorney (or could have waited a couple of days in jail awaiting a public defender), had his gun impounded (another such incident about a year ago has the owner still not having his firearm returned). All this because the policy in Milwaukee is that guns, even those owned and licensed by law abiding citizens, are evil and you will be punished one way or another.
Unfortunately, when the Truth is told and provided, it is ridiculed as religious propaganda; however, those who ridicule cannot answer basic questions about the origins of life, etc....
Yes, situations like this do lead back to fundamental philosophies of existence and cultural winds.